John Terry apologises after tricking fans into believing he’d completed a Rubik’s Cube

Job done: John Terry’s photo order and comment suggested he had completed the messed-up puzzle (Picture: John Terry)

John Terry fans have been left a little short-changed after he misled them into thinking he had completed the tricky Rubik’s Cube puzzle – only to later reveal that he miserably failed.

The Chelsea captain, who is never far from the back and sometimes front pages of the newspapers, has spent the last few months trying to repair his battered image by sharing shots of his life via Instagram.

The majority of Terry’s photos are generally mundane, but he surprised many who question his intelligence by posting a snap of him holding a muddled-up Rubik’s Cube this week, with a follow-up next to it showing him smiling with the completed puzzle.

Terry captioned the images ‘Say no more. Complete’ suggesting that he had solved the notorious game in which all of the same coloured squares must align on each side.

Challenge: The Rubik’s Cube is a challenge of mental agility (Picture: Reuters)

But as the congratulations flooded in, Terry was forced to deny that he had solved the puzzle – instead claiming that it was already complete, and that he had muddled up the order of the photos by accident.